explain Hitler's foreign policies
Foreign policy of Hitler:
- 1933: Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations.
- 1936: Reoccupied the Rhineland.
- 1938: Integrated Austria and Germany.
- Captured Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and later the country itself.Accumulation of resources was carried out through expansion policies in order to prevent economic crisis.
- 1939: Germany invaded Poland which instigated France and England.
- September, 1940: A Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan.
- Puppet regimes were installed in a large part of Europe that supported the Nazi Germany.
- June, 1941: Attacked the Soviet Union.
- The Soviet Red Army defeated Germany in Stalingrad.
- The Soviet army chased the retreating German soldiers until they reached Berlin and established Soviet hegemony over the entire Eastern Europe for half a century thereafter.
- The USA entered the war when Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbour.
- May, 1945: The war ended with Hitler’s defeat and the US dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan